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in 24 years in how much they pay for their staff's health benefits. The consulting
“firm marshes out with its latest annual national survey of employer-sponsored health plans,”
it finds companies expect to pay an average of 8% more in 2027. That's likely to lead to hire premium costs for employees. The oil giant Chevron says it is expanding its operations in Venezuela, where it has operated for more than a century. This is the Trump administration partners with the private company, Evan Aswell, that would give the United States access
to 65 billion barrels of oil, and Piers will a rubin with details. In an online statement,
Chevron said it's gotten new land in Venezuela to tap for oil. It plans to invest more than $7 billion over the next five years, and that eventually, it'll produce 600,000 barrels a day. For context, the entire country of Venezuela produces around 1 million barrels daily. Now, Venezuela's oil infrastructure has been in disrepair for decades. Analysts say it'll take time and millions of dollars to repair or rebuild it. But Venezuela is sitting on lots of oil.
Chevron's move is part of a larger American push to rebuild Venezuela's oil infrastructure
“and to gain access to that oil. Will a rubin and Piers news?”
The jury in Lindsey Clancy's murder trial and Massachusetts remains deadlocked. Today,
it told the judge that after nearly 20 hours of deliberation, it is still unable to reach a unanimous decision on whether Clancy should be held criminally responsible for the deaths of her three young children. And once again, the judge ordered jurors to continue deliberating. The jury has been weighing the defense's argument that Clancy's suffer postpartum psychosis when she strangled her children to death in 2023. The prosecution argues Clancy knew what she was doing.
An immigrant in custody of U.S. immigration and customs enforcement has died hours after he was taken into detention. The latest from empires, Vanessa Romo. The death of a Chinese man in U.S. territory marks the 57th death of an immigrant detainee held in the care of the government
“since the start of President Trump's second term. Twenty-four of those have occurred since January 1st.”
U.S. immigration and customs enforcement says Lian Yang Wei was arrested by the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands Department of Public Safety on August 21st after allegedly attacking a family in their home. A day later, Wei, whose legal immigration status ended in 2019, was taken into ice custody. But before any legal action could be taken, the 51-year-old was found unresponsive by a corrections officer during morning checks. Just hours later, Wei's official
cause of death remains under investigation, Vanessa Romo and PR news. You're listening to NPR. This school year, New York City says students and teachers will face varying restrictions on their use of artificial intelligence. Elementary and middle school students are barred from using generative AI tools. High schoolers will not be allowed to use AI chat bots, but we'll get an education in AI literacy and teachers will not be allowed to use AI to help grade assignments.
Here's New York City Mayors, Romo Mdani. In no way, shape or form will AI replace student teacher interaction. It is the foundation of our students' educational experience. That will not change. A week after meta and a group of state settled, a landmark lawsuit over child addiction to social media. There's a new study showing adults also struggle with time spent on their phones. NPR's John Ruich has more. According to a new survey by the Pew Research Center,
more than half adults in America say they spend too much time on their smartphones. For 18 to 29 year olds, it's 70%. About 1 in 4 adults in the U.S. say they're on their smartphones almost constantly.
Many appear to recognize that time spent on smartphones isn't always a good thing. 45% of adults
surveyed report trying to cut back on their smartphone use in the past year, but about the same numbers say they haven't. Overall, most American adults think smartphones help them stay informed and connected to others. But many around 40% think it hurts the amount of sleep they get. John Ruich and PR news. U.S. stocks trading higher with the Dow Jones industrial average now up more than 250 points of roughly half a percent. This is NPR news. Looking for love, one New York
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